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smbc_comics_feed) wrote2025-12-21 11:20 am
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I push this joke out into the Internet knowing full well that SOMEONE has surely beat me to it.
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rmc28) wrote2025-12-21 02:22 pmSunrise at 08:07
Sunset at 15:49
On this shortest day of the year, Nico and I went to Clip-n-Climb first thing, cycling there and back together through a heavily overcast but weirdly mild December day. We did a little Co-op run on the way home, and then I unpacked the hire car before returning it. I decided against buses or scooters and walked the hour or so back home, including a little diversion to collect a yoga towel from Decathlon. If all goes to plan, I will cycle to hot yoga this evening in the dark (and quite probably the rain) for the first of my "festive pass" sessions.
(I mean it about being weirdly mild: both cycling and walking I had to take my hoodie off because I was too hot.)
Technically I started the 21st of December still awake at midnight, and watching the first couple of episodes of Shoresy, a Canadian comedy TV show about ice hockey, on a friend's recommendation. (Same director/executive producer as Heated Rivalry although I didn't realise that until after I'd started watching.) Very crude, very funny.
Ice hockey, climbing, walking outdoors, yoga. Spending time with my offspring, thinking of my friends, and taking care of myself. If this is a turning day of the year, it's a good set of things to mark it.
Strictly we are not yet into the "mellandagarna", the in-between days of Christmas-to-New-Year. I'm still working until lunchtime on Wednesday, but a lot of the usual rhythms of my life and my household are paused now. School's out, hockey practice is out, everything has "holiday opening hours" listed and I'm feeling a bit unmoored. (Being ill most of the last fortnight probably hasn't helped.) My yoga pass is part of my attempt to put a little structure on the downtime.
andrewducker) wrote2025-12-21 12:00 pmandrewducker) wrote2025-12-21 10:59 amdotaturls_feed) wrote2025-12-18 04:44 pmandrewducker) wrote2025-12-20 08:16 pmA seasoned architect who spends their days patrolling the wall between actual engineering and unsustainable AI hype while desperately trying to keep their Windows 10 box alive until the heat death of the universe.
You are the only person on the internet who still remembers what a build script does and why we shouldn't let LLMs touch them without adult supervision.
Roasts
smbc_comics_feed) wrote2025-12-20 11:20 am
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Of course you don't need AI. You can just crunch the numbers in excel.
andrewducker) wrote2025-12-20 12:00 pmwildeabandon) wrote2025-12-20 11:42 amleonato in "Anything Goes", which should be a lot of fun.rmc28) wrote2025-12-20 10:24 amYesterday after work I did a library run (more Rick Riordan!) on the way to pick up a hire car for the weekend. Then drove with Charles over to Northstowe for the Kodiaks Christmas party at the Northstowe Tap and Social. Secret Santa, noodles buffet, attempting to introduce an American to prawn crackers - she didn't like them - and a drag queen bingo.
I left the party a little early to go to the last Warbirds practice of the year and was so glad to be back on the ice again. (Yes, in shock news, 48 hours after having a massive mood crash about having a cold forever, I was well enough to skate hard for 90 minutes. It is a weird signal, but a consistent one.) It was ten days since my last practice, and it's now ten days until my next one (Kodiaks 2 on 30 Dec). I missed it so much. Practice was just the right level of challenging that I'm really pushing myself but not feeling like a hopeless incompetent, it was just what I needed, as was seeing my teammates again.
(Charles made his own way home from Northstowe by bus)
Tonight is the last Kodiaks 1 game of the year, for which I will be herding the volunteers as usual, and rocking my lovely new manager's coat (incredibly warm knee-length hooded puffer coat, personalised with the club logo and my initials). There is apparently a post-game clubbing plan. And tomorrow morning I'm taking Nico climbing. Somewhere in there I'm sleeping, honest.
I have 2.5 more days to work this year, and I am so ready to be done. The giant Ocado order is booked for Tuesday evening. I have a very large pile of borrowed books to read, and the rink public skate schedule in my calendar. The hot yoga place had a special offer, so I also have a 12-day pass to get me through the lack of hockey practices. They are quite strict about turning up sick, and I still have a bit of a cough this morning, so I won't be using it today. But hopefully tomorrow.
andrewducker) wrote2025-12-20 09:31 amcosmolinguist) wrote2025-12-19 11:57 pmDespite having technically finished work yesterday, I did log on for one meeting today because it looked so incredibly useful, and it was. And it was done at noon so I still had time to help pack and get stuff ready and we got going on time.
We had a pretty smooth journey to Birmingham and a delightful time visiting barakta and Kim and seeing their new house before we got here.
Now we're at D's sister's. Her husband and son arranged to get her a sourdough starter from a from a friend of the kid's.
Of course the first thing they have to do with it is name it.
I joked that it should be called Joe Ryan of course. Or Pablo López. (They are starters for my baseball team, you see.)
So now it's called Pablo.
The kid once called it Pablo Escobar and now its full name is Pablo Escojar.
bruce_schneier_feed) wrote2025-12-19 10:06 pmVideo from Reddit shows what could go wrong when you try to pet a—looks like a Humboldt—squid.
As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.
kaberett) wrote2025-12-19 10:34 pmThis afternoon did not go to plan and we did not achieve The Fancy Dinner we'd intended, but we DID make it to Glow Wild and the macaroni cheese was NOT sad cold soup, so I'm calling that a win.
Have a starfish for now, with more to follow <3
smbc_comics_feed) wrote2025-12-19 11:20 am
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They quietly cruise into a carwash and try to put his body in the trash.
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bruce_schneier_feed) wrote2025-12-19 12:02 pmAt least some of this is coming to light:
Doublespeed, a startup backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) that uses a phone farm to manage at least hundreds of AI-generated social media accounts and promote products has been hacked. The hack reveals what products the AI-generated accounts are promoting, often without the required disclosure that these are advertisements, and allowed the hacker to take control of more than 1,000 smartphones that power the company.
The hacker, who asked for anonymity because he feared retaliation from the company, said he reported the vulnerability to Doublespeed on October 31. At the time of writing, the hacker said he still has access to the company’s backend, including the phone farm itself.
Slashdot thread.
andrewducker) wrote2025-12-19 12:00 pm
